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To: DownSouth who wrote (62012)	8/7/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

DownSouth,>>>MSFT has a ways to go before enterprise level mission critical apps will be on NT--but it will happen.<<< It could happen a lot sooner than later if we didn't live in such a hype-ladened society. Most CIOs and the Techies that work for them are self absorbed and self important experts in minutia. They are always chasing the latest and hottest new paradigm. They don't have a clue as to what is really important - like helping the company earn a profit. What they want is a bigger budget, larger staff, and more stuff to explore, what they think is, leading edge technology. The system that the Dryers developed cost virtually nothing when compared to what most CIOs spend for systems that have far less activity than this SI website. I would say that 99% of all enterprise level mission critical systems being developed in the world has less activity than this site. And I would bet that downtime for this website is far lower than most enterprise level mission critical systems. Just a gut level feeling, Mary

To: DownSouth who wrote (62012)	8/11/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Downsouth, I thinking you are missing a huge part of an equation here with your statement: Wintel is a ways from being a contender in the high-end Unix market. However, Intel is not so far away as Unix OS systems run on Intel platforms. First you are forgetting a couple of economic issues. First is (let's just say) Solaris starts selling really well for Xeon boxes, guess what Sun LOSES money (beacuse I would put even money that 70% of those sales would have been Sparc based machines a year ago). Second of all, Let me let you in on a BIG part of the stability of commercial UNIX's: SUN OS (Solaris) running a a SUN manufactured box, with SUN written drivers, on SUN certified hardware. DIGITAL UNIX running on DEC ALPHA's, using DEC written drivers on DEC approved hardware. HPUX running on PA-RISC cpus, using HP written drivers and HP approved hardware. Now compare this to: Microsoft Windows NT, Running on ???? CPUs using ????? written drivers on ?????'s hardware.. Which situation do you think is NATURALLY more prone to stability. Steve